Help - spin count exceeded issues...
Hi all, I'm starting to have more frequent problems with this and I'm hoping someone can help. The first time I saw this type of error was about a month or so ago. Then on Saturday the server locked...
View Articlecreated 4 Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit Images and deploy P2V and as soon we...
created 4 Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit Images and deploy P2V and as soon we turn the VM on it is eating up the Memory and Balloon Memory
View ArticleCan I pause some where at Kickstart script when performing PXE installation?
I have successfully setup PXE installation for VMware vSphere Hypervisor. The pxelinux config file has something like this:label VMware vSphere Hypervisor menu label VMware vSphere Hypervisor...
View ArticleThe installation of ESXi 4 freezes in the "Initializing scheduler" stage
Tried to install ESXi 4.1 on IBM x3550 M3. The installation process hangs in the "Initializing scheduler" stage.Also tried ESXi 4.0 U1 and ESXi 4.0 U1 with IBM customization - the same result.Note,...
View ArticleHost not seeing additional nic cards
I have an esxi host 4.1 running on an IBM 3650m3 with three pci slot 4 port nic cards. In the configuration and networking option I am not seeing these additional nic cards I am only seeing the...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Update 3 panics CentOS 6 guests
I'm running VMware vSphere 4 Essentials on three almost identically configured hosts with a mix of guests including Windows 2003 and 2008 as well as CentOS 5 and 6. Recently I installed Update 3 on one...
View ArticleFree backup solutions for VMware ESXi?
I would like to back up the VM images from one datastore to another with the aim that I can just start it up in VSphere if the primary one falls over. The backup process needs to take place once a day...
View ArticleReally bad disk performance
Hi everyone. I'm new to VMWare, I'm having a really serious case of very poor disk performance and It's getting hard to me to troubleshoot it.First of all I would like to post some information that may...
View ArticleSnapshot consolidation with VMware Converter
Dear all, ESXi 4.1.0VMware Converter Stand aloneProductive system with typical "Too much snapshots to get it consolidated on the datastore"-problem. Already found several threads and hints, that using...
View ArticleESXi - Acronis vmProtect 7 - Fails
Hello, I've got a machine running ESXi 4 with 5 VM's + 1 AcronisAppliance with vmProtect 7. Untill last week, everything worked fine. There was not a single problem with the backups. I Did some...
View Articlecannot create quiesced snapshot after extending c: drive
Hey everyone, ran into this issue recently, so far haven't resolved it... This is running on esxi 4.1 U2 host. The vm is a windows 2008 64 bit machine, with Exchange 2007 sp1 on it. It has been in...
View ArticleLSI SAS error?
Hello all. I've been running an evaluation version of ESXi [5.1] at my company, as we're trying to move torwards a more professional virtualization solution. I have a R515 however that doesn't seem to...
View ArticleDell Esxi4.1 embedded hcl?
Hello. I am trying to find a suitable network card for an esxi host. It is running the dell embedded version. This is the first system I have worked on that is embedded rather than installed. Does...
View ArticleHow to utilize 6 NIC Port on a VMware Host?
I have been given a new host that is running VMware ESXi 4.1u3 (licensed) with 6 NIC ports (not including 2 that are dedicated to iLO). There are 2 available SAN's to connect to and utilize. This...
View ArticleMigration of vCenter from VM to physical
Hi Apologies if I have posted in the wrong forums, feel free to move me :-) We need to move our vCentre 4.1 (hosts running ESXi 4.1) from a VM to a physical host due to issues with our backups. I have...
View ArticleCan´t upgrade from ESXi 4.0 -> 4.1
Hi i have a problem to update one of our ESXi 4.0 hosts build number is 4.0-171294. I decide to update the host via VMware CLI but it fails in the first step if i want to query C:\Program Files...
View ArticleUpgrading to ESXi 5.1
Hi. Thanks in advance to all the helpful people out here. I'm running ESXi 4.0. In order to run Windows 8 I apparently need ESXi 5.1 (I'm reading 5.0 isn't enough). I just downloaded...
View ArticleNetwork Load Balancing issue
I have a Cisco UCS Blade Chassis with 5 blades running ESXi 4.1. The chassis is connected to a pair of 6120 interconnects, and the interconnects are connected to our 6509e core router/switch. Im...
View ArticleInstalling VMWare tools on Ubuntu 11.10 (64bits)
I have ESXi 4.0.0, 208167, server trying to install VMWare tools on Ubuntu 11.10 I'm getting the following...
View ArticleMoving a Windows 2008 vm
I have a VM with Windows 2008 in a rather small data store. I want to back it up and move it to a larger capacity server. I am wondering if by moving it to a larger datastore, it will allow me to...
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